Notes on Kite Aerial Photography: Background

My KAP Curriculum Vitae
Charles C. Benton

Personal
Data		 Charles Crisp Benton
Professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720

crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu --- http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap

Artist in Residence, Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2003
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies, 1979

Tulane University
Bachelor of Architecture, 1974
KAP Publications Benton, C., Kaptions, Kitelines, Summer 2002.

Benton, C., "What's Up with That?", American Kite, Vol. 10, No. 3, Grass Valley, California, Fall 1997, pp. 31-35.

Benton, C., and Bieck, W. (translator), "California KAPing", sport und design drachen, Vol. 5.97, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1997, pp. 72-75.

Benton, C., "KAP Cradles and Suspensions", Japanese Journal of Kite Aerial Photography, Japanese Kite Aerial Photography Association, July 1997.

Benton, C., "Got the World on a String", California Monthly, Vol. 107, No. 5, California Alumni Association, Berkeley, California, April, 1997, cover, pp. 16-17.
Publications Referencing  my Work Jackson, Sarah, "Hanging Around", Amateur Photographer, Vol. 195, No. 12, London, UK, 24 March 2001, PP. 31-34.

Smith, Rosiland, "Four Pro Sites Profiled", Shutterbug, Vol. 27, No. 6, Titusville, Florida, April 1998, p. 36.

Soyka, H., "Drachen im Internet", sport und design drachen, Vol. 2.97, Baden-Baden, Germany, June 1997, pp. 46-47

Levy, D., "The Kiteman Cometh", San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday Section, Hearst Publishing, San Francisco, California, 15 June, 1997, p. 1,4.

Colker, D., "Aerial Photos on a Kite String: Web Site Displays Beautiful Results of Interesting Hobby", Los Angeles Times, March 1997.
This article went out "on the wire" and was publish in several places including the Ottawa Citizen and the Augusta Chronicle.

Finch, D., "As the Kite Flies: A Weekend Hobby Gets Professor Benton a Bird's Eye View", the Berkeleyan, UC Berkeley, 10 April, 1996.
KAP Invited
Presentations		 The Camera Aloft, City College, San Francisco, September 2001.

Kite Aerial Photography, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 1999.

Kite Aerial Photography - Current Work, Berkeley Camera Club, Berkeley, California, September 1997.

On Building Science and Kites, Escherick, Homesy, Dodge, and Davis, San Francisco, California, July 1997.

This lunchtime presentation to EHDD began with research work at UC Berkeley and ended with kite aerial photographs of several EHDD projects (UC Berkeley Doe Library expansion, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Wurster Hall.)
KAP
Exhibits		 Kite Aerial Photography, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 1999.

A twelve image exhibit posted for a month prior to my talk in Guatemala.

The Camera Aloft: Kite Aerial Photography, University of LaVerne, Department of Photography, Miller Hall, October 1997.

This fifty-seven image exhibit ran in the Irene Carlson Gallery from 29 October, 1997 to 17 December, 1997.

Picture This Exhibition, The Getty Museum, Getty Information Institute, January 1998.

The KAP WWW Site is featured on a curated "Picture This" WWW tour in the Digital Experience Room at the new Getty Museum.
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Image Use		 UC Berkeley Summer Session, images used throughout promotional materials including WWW site, catalog, flyers, mailers, and poster, 2002.

WWW Home Page, Center for Design Visualization, UC Berkeley, 2000.

Several images, in Jensen, J., Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective, Prentice-Hall, 1999 

Cover image, the Aerial Eye, a quarterly publication of the aerial photography committee of the American Kite Association, Pacific Grove, California, Summer 1999.

1999 Orientation Announcement, a postcard featuring DOE Library sent to incoming undergraduates (~12,000 mailed), Office of New Student Programs, UC Berkeley, April 1999.

Cover image, DOE Library Annual Report, UC Berkeley, 1999.

Cover image and divider pages, Blue & Gold Yearbook, UC Berkeley, 1999.

Cover image, for Cummings, Michael, Human Heredity: Principles and Issues, Brooks/Cole, 1999. Also used in reworked form for cover of 6th Edition, 2002.

1998 Orientation Announcement, a postcard featuring the Campanile sent to incoming undergraduates (~12,000 mailed), Office of New Student Programs, UC Berkeley, April 1998.

Photograph of 4th Street, in Blakely, E., Fortress America, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., October 1997.

1997 Orientation Announcement, a postcard with Campanile image sent to incoming undergraduates (~12,000 mailed), Office of New Student Programs, UC Berkeley, April 1997.

Cover image, the Aerial Eye, a quarterly publication of the aerial photography committee of the American Kite Association, Pacific Grove, California, Fall 1996.

Cover image, News Journal of the Department of Chemistry, Vol. 4, No. 2, UC Berkeley, Fall 1996.

Article and image, CED News, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, Spring 1996.

1996 Orientation Announcement, a postcard with Campanile image sent to incoming undergraduates (~12,000 mailed), Office of New Student Programs, UC Berkeley, April 1996.
KAP Project Video
Artifacts 		Evening Magazine, filmed March 2002,  aired April 2002.

My fourth television interview including yet another real-time demonstration of KAP technique illustrated with the resulting images. The interview was shot at Battery Mendell in the Marin Headlands. Approximate 5 minute run time.

Bay Area Backroads, filmed August 2000,  aired October 2000 with repeats.

My third television interview including yet another real-time demonstration of KAP technique illustrated with the resulting images. The interview was shot at the newly restored Crissy Field shoreline. Approximate 5 minute run time.

ZDTV Interview near the St. Francis Yacht Club, filmed October 1998,  aired May 1999 with repeats.

An second television interview including a real-time demonstration of KAP technique illustrated with the resulting images.

Facade, Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH 1997, Los Angeles, California, August 1997.

This short video, shown at the SIGGRAPH'97 Electronic Theatre, used advanced software and kite aerial photographs to blend images from full scale, physical models and computer models into a photo realistic flight around Berkeley's Sather Tower and the surrounding campus. The project was a collaboration with Dr. Paul Debevec and other colleagues at UC Berkeley's Department of Computer Science. Approximately 7 minute run time.

CNN Interview on San Francisco's Marina Green, aired 4 July, 1997, rebroadcast 23 June, 1998, also distributed on several occasions via CNN's education network.

An interview on the art of kite aerial photography that included a real-time demonstration of KAP technique illustrated with the resulting images. Approximately 4.5 minute run time.
Service Steering Committee, KAPiCA '02 -- helped organize an international gathering of kite aerial photographers held at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, Novemner 2002.

Provided counsel on KAP supplements for over 8 research proposals, regularized this advice with development of model specifications. 

Donation of images for use by non-profits. For instance, donations to UC Berkeley include images used by Office of New Student Programs, the Blue & Gold, Bancroft Library, DOE Library, College of Environmental Design, Department of Chemistry, School of Social Welfare, Summer Sessions, and others.

Competition judge, Berkeley Camera Club, Berkeley, California, October 1997.

Developed and maintain WWW site covering many aspects of kite aerial photography.
Honors and Awards Best Photographer Award, KAPiCA '02, Pacific Grove, November 2002

2nd place award, JKPA 2002 Aerial Photography Contest, Japan Kite Aerial Photography Association. 

The Jackrabbit Speaks, Burning Man 2001 images awarded "favorite" status.

First Place, Aerial Eye KAP Self-Portrait Contest, American Kite Association, February 1998.

Multimedia Grand Prix ’97, Multimedia Content Association of Japan, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, for "FAÇADE: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs", team member, 1997.

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